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Greenpeace Lights Up Fonterra HQ With NZers’ Passionate Calls For Environmental Action
Tuesday, 3 June 2025, 12:26 pm | Greenpeace
These messages included that of Gail, who said "With a dairy farm background I feel sad our dairy industry continues to pollute". More >>
Leading International Climate Scientists Rubbish Luxon’s ‘Methane Review’, Call On PM To Take Methane Seriously
Tuesday, 3 June 2025, 7:10 am | Greenpeace
According to the Financial Times report, leading climate scientists are accusing politicians in New Zealand and Ireland of using an "accounting trick" that could undermine global efforts to fight climate change. More >>
Luxon Government To Favour Dairy Pollution At The Expense Of Drinking Water
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 2:18 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa freshwater campaigner Will Appelbe says, "Safe drinking water requires healthy freshwater ecosystems, and that should always be the priority. But today’s decision will drive more water contamination, especially in rural communities." More >>
Regulatory Standards Bill Inflicts ACT's Far-Right Principles On Aotearoa
Friday, 23 May 2025, 3:51 pm | Greenpeace
"The Regulatory Standards Bill tries to make all future lawmakers in government follow a rigid set of the ACT Party’s far-right principles - prioritising corporate interests over people, nature, and Te Tiriti," says Greenpeace spokesperson Gen Toop. More >>
Scorched Earth Budget - Tax Cuts For Polluters And Investing In Fossil Fuels
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 3:58 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace warns that "balancing the books" will only get harder if the Government pushes ahead with the Regulatory Standards Bill and RMA reforms. Greenpeace says this Budget is part of a pattern of slashing money for environmental and climate ... More >>
"Deeply Ironic"- Govt Ridiculed Over Use Of Urgency For Regulatory Standards Bill
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 12:55 pm | Greenpeace
One of the principles in the Regulatory Standards Bill would create a new and unprecedented expectation that the Crown compensate corporations if environmental or public interest laws affect their property. More >>
Greenpeace Slams Federated Farmers Over ‘Selfish’ Behaviour On Climate
Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 3:30 pm | Greenpeace
The consequence of the livestock industry selfishly absconding their climate responsibility is that everyone else has to pick up the slack. Or, alternatively, that we all suffer the consequences of more floods, storms, fires and droughts. All of which affect ... More >>
Greenpeace Analysis Reveals Almost Half A Million Blue Sharks Caught As ‘bycatch’ In Central And Western Pacific In 2023
Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 12:55 pm | Greenpeace
The international waters between New Zealand and Australia are globally renowned precisely because of the range and variety of ocean life that lives there, from deep sea corals growing on seamounts to sharks, seabirds and migrating whales. More >>
Greenpeace Braced For ‘Scorched Earth’ Budget From Govt
Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 7:25 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
"Given that this Government just legalised killing kiwi, we’re bracing for a Scorched Earth Budget," says Greenpeace Aotearoa spokesperson Gen Toop. More >>
Leading Environmental Organisations Call On The PM To Reject The Regulatory Standards Bill
Monday, 19 May 2025, 7:21 am | Greenpeace
The open letter, signed by the executive directors of Forest & Bird, Greenpeace Aotearoa, EDS, and WWF-NZ, describes the Regulatory Standards Bill as "an unprecedented threat" to environmental protection, climate action, and the country’s democratic and constitutional ... More >>
Greenpeace Slams Acceptance Of Seabed Miner’s Application
Friday, 16 May 2025, 3:22 pm | Greenpeace
Experts say that seabed mining in the South Taranaki Bight would damage rich ecosystems and threaten precious marine life such as the pygmy blue whale, Māui and Hector’s dolphins and kororā. More >>
Greenpeace Slams Govt For Failure To Commit To Protecting Rivers
Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 11:45 am | Greenpeace
"People across the country are standing up for better protection for lakes, rivers, and drinking water. If the politicians won’t take action, then they should expect resistance." More >>
Greenpeace Flagship Rainbow Warrior Returns For 40th Anniversary Of French Bombing In Auckland On 10 July
Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 7:16 am | Greenpeace
In the 40 years since, the Rainbow Warrior has sailed on the front lines of our campaigns around the world to protect nature and promote peace. More >>
Attenborough’s Ocean Highlights Horrors Of Bottom Trawling
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 2:31 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa and allies have been campaigning for decades to restrict this damaging fishing practice from where it does the most harm, but has faced continuous pushback from the NZ industry and a lack of ambition from successive governments. More >>
Greenpeace Activists Appear In Court Over Climate Protest At Fonterra Te Rapa Factory
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 10:16 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace spokesperson Sinéad Deighton-O’Flynn says, "These people scaled Fonterra’s factory because Fonterra is cooking the climate with superheating methane gas - and it refuses to take responsibility for its pollution." More >>
Greenpeace Serves Luxon A Mock Poisonous Porridge To Highlight Glyphosate Rule Change
Friday, 9 May 2025, 3:44 pm | Greenpeace
Our kids, and every New Zealander, have a right to safe food. But this Government is proposing to allow 100 times more of a probable carcinogen onto the grains that feed us every day. More >>
Government Passes Kiwi Killing Bill Under Urgency
Thursday, 8 May 2025, 2:09 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace says it’s the latest escalation in the Luxon Government’s war on nature and is calling for the immediate repeal of the amendment and for the Government to strengthen, not weaken, protections for the country’s endangered wildlife. More >>
Greenpeace Slams PM’s Science Pick: "Polluters Are Running The Show"
Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 2:08 pm | Greenpeace
Working with Federated Farmers and Beef + Lamb, DairyNZ has pushed for a system called no additional warming to measure methane emissions. Greenpeace says this approach isn't grounded in science and is designed to justify doing less. More >>
BREAKING: Luxon Government To Pass Law Tonight That Legalises Killing Kiwi
Tuesday, 6 May 2025, 5:57 pm | Greenpeace
The amendment to the Wildlife Act, New Zealand’s foundational wildlife protection law, would allow the Director-General of Conservation to grant companies permission to kill native animals if they get in the way of projects like roads, mines or dams. More >>
Australian Election A Warning Shot For Luxon’s Trump-style Agenda, Says Greenpeace
Monday, 5 May 2025, 10:02 am | Greenpeace
In Australia, Peter Dutton’s Coalition promised more offshore gas drilling. In Aotearoa, Luxon’s Government is repealing the oil and gas ban. In the U.S., Trump is gutting environmental protections to make way for fossil fuel expansion. More >>
